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I've been thinking about Ceqli's phoneme set, and the challenges it might pose to speakers of Mandarin, Japanese, Indonesian, Hindi, etc. Some of these languages don't have a voiced/unvoiced distinction, though if they don't they usually have an unaspirated/aspirated distinction. Also, a lot of the Asian languages only have one liquid, more often "l" than "r". Could this pose a serious problem? I know Latenkwa/Nasendi/Katanda also has a big phoneme set (though just one native liquid). What have other conlangers concluded about voiced/unvoiced - unaspirated/aspirated, etc.? ---Krawn